Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.